Celebrate People
About this business
Celebrate People is a multi-belief organisation based on humanist values. We conduct ceremonies as well as providing support and counselling. Our highly trained and experienced celebrants represent our humanist values of love, kindness, equality, compassion, inclusion and respect. We believe that you two are central and will support you to make sure that your ceremony reflects and expresses what is important to you, your lives, your culture.
We can provide excellent Spanish, French and Italian speaking celebrants to make sure everyone is included.
We simply want you to feel cared for and supported to express your love and commitment in the way that means most to you in that special moment. You may celebrate with family and friends or run away just the two of you. Whatever you choose we are there to help you have your perfect ceremony.
We are there for you from the moment you start to think about what you want for your ceremony all the way through to you leaving for the rest of your celebrations. For most that includes making sure all the legal details are taken care of in the right way and in the right place. If you need guidance on what to include on your ceremony, we are there with many ideas and support to help you choose the best words and elements for you both.
All of our celebrants are brilliant at listening and helping as little or as much as you need them to put what is you want to say into words. For some couples this is easy, others less so. Wherever you fall on that scale we will support you in your ceremony development in preparation for the main event. Symbols and customs can strengthen what you want to say and all of us can include handfasting, drinking from the quaich, sand ceremony and many more.
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We were married by the lovely Aileen Massie on 12th April 2023 and we could not have asked for a better celebrant. Aileen met us prior to the wedding and really spent time getting to know us and what we wanted at our ceremony. She encouraged us to personalise our ceremony and gave us pointers and guidance to make our ceremony unique and right for us. On the morning of the wedding Aileen spoke with me and my husband, separately, to give us reassurance and wish us the best.
Our ceremony was outstanding and we loved every minute of it. Aileen delivered it fantastically and all our guests commented on how amazing it was! Can not recommend Aileen enough!
Gerrie Douglas-Scott was our celebrant for our wedding on 22nd April 2023. We booked her a year in advance and she was the best thing that could have happened to us! She helped us with the whole wedding planning process and kept us right with all of our timelines and what we had to do and when. She was so kind, friendly and approachable and felt like just a very special guest at our wedding. Her ideas for our ceremony and help structuring everything we wanted was invaluable and made it just perfect. It was so personal and felt like us. It felt like Gerrie had known us forever and totally got us as a couple and a family which was hugely important to us and to how we wanted our wedding to feel. We couldn’t rate Gerrie highly enough, she was a huge part of why our wedding was simply perfect.
Gerrie Douglas-Scott was our celebrant on 30th April 2023, and we couldn’t have asked for a more perfect celebrant for our ceremony. We were a bit nervous about our emotions getting the better of us, but right from the first moment we met Gerrie, she put us at ease, and reassured us that she would keep us right. Gerrie gave us the perfect amount of guidance and freedom to create a ceremony that was personal to us, and was the highlight of our wedding day. She brings warmth, fun and authenticity to the ceremony, and is kind and interested along the way! A million thank you’s and endless gratitude! Hannah and Martin x
Gerrie Douglas-Scott
We chose Gerrie as our celebrant after a recommendation and we are so glad we did. With her help and guidance we had the most wonderful ceremony. It was full of love and laughter and Gerrie was simply perfect throughout the whole process.
We are a couple of French lovers, and had the pleasure of renewing our vows in the magnificent valley of Glencoe, under a magnificent sun! It is a privileged moment, which we shared with our grown-up children. If our ceremony was so rich in emotions and will remain in our memories as one of the happiest events of our lives, it is because the chance of our research led us to Tim Maguire. Our many exchanges (in French, our English is very bad), his precious advice and his proposal of “homework of love” contributed to the success of our day. The “duties of love” are an excellent basis for writing our vows” and are a real gift for a couple who have already gone through many years together. They give the opportunity to take the time to reflect on our love, and to talk to each other with an open heart. What will we remember from our renewal of wedding vows? Lots of laughs, unique moments shared with our children and some friends, beautiful encounters (Tim and Rich for the bagpipes), a few tears of joy, and irreplaceable memories. Thank you Tim, it was a pleasure to meet you and thank you for the delicate attention to have a tree planted for this occasion. We fell in love with Scotland, and we are happy to leave a useful trace of our passage there.